{"id":3647,"date":"2013-05-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/05\/11\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-changed-directories\/"},"modified":"2013-05-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-changed-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-changed-directories\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Changed Directories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to identify directories that changed since a specific date.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to find directories that have changed since a specific date?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Get-ChildItem<\/strong> cmdlet and specify only directories. Pipe the results to Where-Object<\/strong> and evaluate the LastWriteTime<\/strong> property (dir<\/strong> is an alias for Get-ChildItem<\/strong>, ?<\/strong> is an alias for Where-Object<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Windows PowerShell 3.0 syntax:<\/p>\n

dir -Directory | ? lastwritetime -gt $([datetime]’4\/1\/2013′)<\/p>\n

Windows PowerShell 2.0 syntax:<\/p>\n

dir | ? { $_.psiscontainer -AND $_.Lastwritetime -gt $([datetime]’4\/1\/2013′)}<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to identify directories that changed since a specific date.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find directories that have changed since a specific date?  Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet and specify only directories. Pipe the results to Where-Object and evaluate the LastWriteTime property (dir is an alias for Get-ChildItem, ? is an alias for Where-Object). Windows PowerShell 3.0 syntax: dir -Directory | ? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to identify directories that changed since a specific date.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find directories that have changed since a specific date?  Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet and specify only directories. Pipe the results to Where-Object and evaluate the LastWriteTime property (dir is an alias for Get-ChildItem, ? is an alias for Where-Object). Windows PowerShell 3.0 syntax: dir -Directory | ? […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}